New York City gun permit applications soar — but the NYPD approves only 13%

Making moves! Kelley Flanagan candidly shared her aspirations for 2021 following her split from Peter Weber.

This is what it’s like to live in a New York City hotel with COVID-19. A resident of the city is chronicling her stay at a popular hotel near LaGuardia Airport while she isolates after testing positive for the coronavirus.

Shootings and murders skyrocketed in 2020 throughout the Big Apple, the NYPD said as it released year-end crime data late Wednesday. The number of shootings soared 97% from 777 in 2019 to 1,531 in 2020 and murders jumped by 44% from 319 to 462, according to the NYPD.

A fisherman reeled in a decomposed body from a Brooklyn pier Tuesday afternoon, police said.  The corpse was found floating around Canarsie Pier in Brooklyn shortly before 4 p.m.

Tayshia Adams and Zac Clark are loving living together in the Big Apple.

Jennifer Lopez is showing off her glam approach to winter white. Yesterday, the singer was photographed in New York City headed to rehearsals for her upcoming headlining performance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest this week.

Police shot and wounded an unarmed man in Brooklyn Monday night after he rushed at cops and pulled his hand from his waistband — refusing commands to show his hands, NYPD officials said. The man, identified by sources as 35-year-old Curtis McGarrell, was hit in the leg and taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Chief of Department Terence Monahan said during a briefing at the shooting scene in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicMichael Alig, the New York City club promoter who in the early- to mid-1990s made a name for himself as the leader of the “Club Kids,” and was subsequently convicted of first-degree manslaughter for the 1996 death of Andre “Angel” Melendez — the inspiration for the 2003 film “Party Monster” starring Macauley Kulkin — has died of an apparent heroin overdose. He was 54.

A New York City Republican club is now firing back at critics – including the Big Apple’s "idiot mayor" and "King Cuomo" – after its members were filmed dancing in a maskless conga line during a recent holiday party.  At least 50 people attended the indoor celebration at the Il Bacco Ristorante in the city’s Queens borough on Dec. 9, according to the Queens Daily Eagle.

Bella Hadid bundles up in a cool jacket while leaving her apartment in New York City on Monday (December 21).

Bella Hadid and Gigi Hadid, who have been out and about together this winter in the city, matching in their all black getups (masks included, of course) while taking Baby Hadid for a brisk stroll through SoHo, or in Gigi's case, introducing her daughter to her very first snow.Bella, however, opted for giving her 36 million Instagram followers "a snow angel special."A special it was indeed—who else is brave enough to plop themselves down in the snow, wearing their Sex-embroidered white jeans,